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Guidelines for Ethical Communications Around Child Marriage: Principles, Best Practice and Tools

London: Girls Not Brides (2022), 64 pp.
"Communicators in the end child marriage movement are responsible for ensuring the storytelling process is a source of power for contributors, and that contributors feel positive about the following portrayal. This means examining biases, story and image choices, and decision making to ensure they reflect contributors’ wishes, as expressed by them. It also means constantly learning and improving approaches to ethical communications based on contributors’ diverse experiences and feedback. These guidelines outline ethical communications principles and good practices for the end child marriage movement, and include the practical considerations and tools needed to deliver on them. They are designed to support those communicating around the issue of child marriage to consider: 1. if their communications materials reflect the wishes and expectations of the girls, adolescents and young women who share their stories; 2. how communications materials are received by external audiences." (Introduction)
1 Principles of ethical communications, 9
2 Editorial decision-making, 11
3 Consent, 26
4 Production of communications materials, 43
5 Distribution and storage, 58
6 Ongoing commitment, 62
Appendices, 64